Fat Chance Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease

Name: Fat Chance Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
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ISBN: 9781594631009

ISBN-10: 159463100X

ISBN-13: 9781594631009

Edition: 2012

Authors: Robert H. Lustig

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Robert Lustig’s 90-minute YouTube video “Sugar: The Bitter Truth”, has been viewed more than two million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years.In the late 1970s when the government mandated we get the fat out of our food, the food industry responded by pouring more sugar in. The result has been a perfect storm, disastrously altering our biochemistry and driving our eating habits out of our control.To help us lose weight and recover our health, Lustig presents personal strategies to readjust the key hormones that regulate hunger, reward, and stress; and societal strategies to…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/27/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Introduction: Time to Think Outside the Box



The Greatest Story Ever Sold



A Fallacy of Biblical Proportion



A Calorie Is a Calorie-or Is It?



Personal Responsibility versus the Obese Six-Month-Old



To Eat or Not to Eat? That's Not the Question



Gluttony and Sloth-Behaviors Driven by Hormones



Food Addiction-Fact or Fallacy



Stress and "Comfort Food"



"Chewing" the Fat



The Birth, Care, and Feeding of a Fat Cell



The Difference Between "Fat" and "Sick"



Metabolic Syndrome: The New Scourge



The "Real" Toxic Environment



The Omnivore's Curse: Low Fat versus Low Carb



Fructose-The "Toxin"



Fiber-Half the Antidote



Exercise-The Other Half of the Antidote



Micronutrients: Home Run or Hyperbole?



Environmental "Obesogens"



The "Empire" Strikes Back: Response of the Food Industry



The Personal Solution



Altering Your Food Environment



Altering Your Hormonal Environment



Last Resorts: When Altering Your Environment Isn't Enough



The Public Health Solution



The "Nanny State": Personal versus Societal Responsibility



What Hath Government Wrought?



A Call for Global Sugar Reduction


Epilogue: Not a Top-Down but a Bottom-Up Movement


Acknowledgments


Notes


Glossary


Index